The Game of Life is Turing Complete

Like Alan Turing, John Conway was a Cambridge Mathematician. He invented a mathematical game called the Game of Life,. So I guess it is in some way fitting that someone would try to implement a Turing Machine in the Game of Life. Paul Rendell has succeeded. I still can’t quite come to terms with this! What does it mean ?

Konrad Zuse’s early computing machines have been shown to be Turing Complete., at least theoretically. This installation explores Zues’s choice of discarded 35mm film and the unintended marriage of image and raw code that this produced. And here is a page dedicated to Konrad Zuse’s own art.